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Writing Awards and Scholarships
Writing
Awards | Educational Scholarships
Unpublished Writer Award: General Guidelines
- Applicant must mail four copies of an original, unpublished
fiction work (short story or novel excerpt) not to exceed 2,000
typed words on double-spaced pages.
- Applicant must include a cover sheet with the following information:
applicant's name, address, telephone number and e-mail where possible;
250-word biographical sketch, including your writing goals and
current status
- The $500 winner will be invited, along with a guest, to attend
our annual awards ceremony and work may be featured in the Go
On Girl! Quarterly newsletter and/or on our website.
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Call for Entries: All Unpublished Writers
Write your way to $500! Submit your work to be considered for this year's
Unpublished Writer's Award.
Deadline for all entries in March 15, annually.
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| 2007 Unpublished Writers Award Winner |
2007 Award Winner: Ashley Williams
Ashley was born in Baltimore, Maryland and is currently matriculating at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she majors in African Studies. Ashley is a recipient of the 2007 and 2006 Margaret Walker Prize for fiction, a Vermont Studio Center Fellow and an alumna of the Hurston Wright Writer’s Workshop. She has been accepted to literary workshops at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the North Country Institute for Writers of Color - Valcour Retreat. Her fiction has been published in Drum Voices Review and in journals at Cornell and Howard Universities. Her winning submission was Maya’s First Flight. |
| Past Unpublished
Writer Award Winners |
2006 Award Winner: Robin Wilson (Arizona)
“Writing is my life”, says Robin Wilson, married mother of two. Robin is a junior at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, Indiana, majoring in Cancer Research, but writing remains her one true passion. Her winning submission was Passing Through.
2005 Award Winner: Camille Acker (Jamaica)
Camille Acker is an editorial assistant at John Wiley & Sons, a book-publishing house in New Jersey. She was born in Columbia, Maryland and raised in Washington, D.C. She graduated with honors from Howard University with a BA in English. She is inspired in part by her mother, a former book editor. Her winning submission was entitled Walking on Tiptoes.
2004 Award Winner: Djuana Brockington (South Carolina)
Djuana Brockington is a thirty-seven year single mother of a nine-year-old "diva in training." She has worked in the field of social services for fifteen years, but has an intense passion for reading and writing and has been a "closet" writer for most of her adult life. She received the Go On Girl 2004 Unpublished Writer Award for her novel excerpt "The Date." Ms. Brockington resides in North Charleston, South Carolina.
2003 Award
Winner: Jacinda Townsend (New York)
Jacinda Townsend is a 2001 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
She has been writing fiction for almost a decade and has been published
in numerous literary magazines, including African Voices,
The Maryland Review, Obsidian II, Passages North,
Phoebe, and Xavier Review. Her work has been anthologized
in the O. Henry Festival Stories 2000 and Telling Stories:
Fiction by Kentucky Feminists. She was a Fulbright fellow in
creative writing in Cote d'Ivoire (West Africa), the producer of
an annual Black History Month feature called The Darker Ink:
Writing from the African Diaspora and for three years, she founded
a minority fiction workshop under the same name. She teaches fiction
writing at New York City's Gotham Writers' Workshop and was a finalist
for the 2002 Hurston-Wright Award. Ms. Townsend received the Go
On Girl 2003 Unpublished Writer Award for her novel excerpt "Blofué."
2002 Award Winner: Sue Williams
(Indiana)
Sue Williams was born on November 2, 1955. A native of Indianapolis,
Indiana, she enjoys reading a diverse selection of literature. Her
written work has been previously published in the Des Moines
Register. She received the Go On Girl 2002 Unpublished Writer
Award for her novel excerpt "Just Another Day."
2001 Award Winner: Trina Gallop
(Virginia)
Trina Gallop was raised in rural North Carolina with childhood aspirations
of writing. She successfully pursued a formal education from the
University of Virginia and Cornell University, earning a BA and
MS, respectively. Her greatest learning potential, however, commenced
during her studies abroad in Nigeria. Ms. Gallop edits and writes
technical documentation at an e-commerce company in Charlottesville,
VA. She received the Go On Girl 2001 Unpublished Writer Award for
"Elizabeth's Eyes," a novel excerpt from "Shades
of Gray."
2000 Award Winner: Tara Owens Baldridge
(Chicago)
Tara Owens Baldridge traveled to Chicago from Shreveport, Louisiana
to study English Language & Literature, Dramatic Language &
Literature and Literature and Practical Drama in the Humanities
Program at the University of Chicago. A writer for more than fifteen
years, she has written poetry, plays, and short stories and has
also penned a screen adaptation of a novel. She is employed as a
children's book buyer at 57th Street Books in Chicago, Illinois.
She received the Go On Girl 2000 Unpublished Writer Award for her
novel excerpt "When A Man Is Wrong."
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